dose : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dose	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for dose
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dose n a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [syn: dose, dosage] the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time Synonym(s): dose, dosage a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact Synonym(s): venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD street name for lysergic acid diethylamide Synonym(s): acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen v treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint" administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" Synonym(s): drug, dose
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dose \Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dosed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {dosing}.] [Cf. F. doser. See {Dose}, n.] 1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses. 2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need. A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, [bd]secundum artem.[b8] -- South 3. To give anything nauseous to.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dose \Dose\ (d[omac]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose, fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See {Date} point of time.] 1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time. 2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive. 3. Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. -- W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. -- South.